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Article: Grow bibles in your garden: feed your mind while nourishing your body.(Spiritual Balance)
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- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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No, I'm not suggesting that you buy a dozen bibles and set them next to your tomatoes and onions. Instead, put plants in your garden that will be like colorful signposts pointing you to a special Scripture verse. The Bible includes many varieties of plants from which to choose.
The Creator Himself served as our world's first gardener. After He created the earth and the waters, Scripture says He got His hands dirty. "Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed" (Genesis 2:8).
Next, He did something all gardeners savor--He shared the joy that Comes from tending growing plants. "The Lord God took the ...